Subject: People » Self (Page 3)

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.

Dad, the odds of me knowing the score to the Mariners game is about the same as you knowing the score to Pacific Overtures.

(1955 – ) American actor, comedian, producer, director & singer

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

(1903 – 1966) English writer

I told my kids, “Someday, you’ll have kids of your own.” One of them said, “So will you.”

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

I was so ugly, my mother breast fed me through a straw.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

I’m the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

I don’t identify as transgender… I identify as tired; I’m just tired.

(1978 – ) Australian comedian, writer & actress

I look like a mix between a Jew and a guy who would drive by in a truck and yell "Jew.”

American comedian

My father was a simple man; my mother was a simple woman; you see the result standing in front of you, a simpleton.

(1919 – 1985) Scottish comedian & actor

I diagnosed my loneliness as premature empty nest syndrome.

(1978 – ) American actress, writer & comedian

When I got through with him, he was all covered wit' blood… my blood.

(1893 – 1980) American singer, pianist, comedian & actor

My boyfriend and I are both in our late 20s; he’s 29, I’m 34.

(1980 – ) Australian comedian

I knew when my career was over; in 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor

My beard is the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's look good.

American basketball player

I will never give up; I’m in my 14th year of a ten-day beauty plan.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else’s.

(John Bloom) (1953 – ) American film critic, writer & actor

Modesty: Being comfortable that others will soon discover your greatness.

Sometimes I think [my writing] sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

(1890 – 1960) journalist, author & dramatist

The other night a mugger took off his mask and made me wear it.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

I deserve someone who likes me for who I am pretending to be.

(1974 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist